IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71355 accession number: C.11-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, black, and white. Shape 58. Circular with a wide, slightly sloping rim and small, deep well. Ulysses commanding Circe to restore his Companions to their Rightful Forms. Ulysses stands on the left, his head turned towards Circe, and his left arm pointing to one of his companions with a swine's hind limbs and head, who reclines in the foreground. In the middle, two of his men with swine's hind legs bear vessels to Circe; the one on the left has a covered dish and the other a ewer and basin. Behind them is a doorway with the date `1532' inscribed in a panel above it. On the right, Circe sits on a throne, holding a sceptre or wand in her right hand. Above her, imposed on a draped curtain is a shield charged with the arms of Pucci of Florence: argent, a moor's head proper wearing a headband argent charged with three hammers sable, with behind, a papal ombrellino. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue: `.1532./Vlisse chiede a Circe/i suoi compagni/Nel .XIIII. Li d Ouidio Met:/.fra: Xanto.A./da Rovi...i / Urbi . . .' (Ulysses asks Circe for his companions In the 14th Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses:.francesco Xanto.Avelli of Rovigo in Urbino). object type: Maiolica bowl with broad rim, painted in polychrome with Ulysses commanding Circe to restore his Companions to their Rightful Forms. title: bowl with broad rim NOTES ----- type: history note value: Conte Ferdinando Pasolini Dall'Onda, Faenza; Paris, Ridel, 14 December 1853, Catalogue d'une belle collection de majoliques italiennes des diverses fabriques des XVe, XVIe & XVIIe siècles, lot 171; Andrew Fountaine IV (1808-73); his heir; Christie's, 16 June 1884, Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels . . ., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk, lot 39; Lowengard; Bourgeois Frères; Cologne, Heberle, 19-27 October 1904, Collection Bourgeois Frères, Catalogue des objets d'art et e haute curiosité composant la collection Bourgeois Frères et dont la vente aura lieu à Cologne dans la grande salle du casino (Augustinerplatz 7) du mercredi 19 au jerdi 27 octobre 1904, lot 93; Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 20 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 390; Marmaduke Langdale Horn (1890-1953). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: M.L. Horn Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71355 PEOPLE ------------------- Foountaine, Andrew, IV Horn, Marmaduke Langdale (1889-1953) Ulysses Circe SUBJECTS ------------------- dish ewer basin curtains shield coat-of-arms swine interior dish ewer basin curtains shield coat-of-arms swine interior TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1532 - 1532 creation date earliest: 1532 creation date latest: 1532 culture: 16th Century, second quarter culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio maker: Monogrammist I. B. maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione Catalogue d'une belle collection de majoliques italiennes des diverses fabriques des XVe, XVIe & XVIIe siècles Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels, carvings in ivory, hone stone and rock crystal, Greek and Roman coins, ancient armour &c. &c., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk Collection Bourgeois Frères, Catalogue des objets d'art et e haute curiosité composant la collection Bourgeois Frères et dont la vente aura lieu à Cologne dans la grande salle du casino (Augustinerplatz 7) du mercredi 19 au jerdi 27 octobre 1904 Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II Rimpianto (Due collezioni faentine disperse) Corpus della maiolica italiana, II, Le maioliche datate dal l53l al l535 Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich The Fountaine collection of maiolica Francesco Xanto Avelli's Pucci Service (1532-1533): Part Two Francesco Xanto's Pucci Service (1532-1533): Part One Xanto and Ariosto Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Catalogo completo dell'opera grafica di Georg Pencz The Art of the Italian Potter, Maiolica and Porcelain from a Private Collection Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ceramics. 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces The Golden Age of Maiolica-Painting. 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